I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords … a collaboration between researchers in Vienna and the US has produced high-resolution laser-control over fruit flies.
If you have access to the necessary kit (cameras and a galvanometer) to track the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster in their experiment), plus a 635nm and a 808nm …

Head Targeted Heating

One of my favorite parts about science is the correlation between the magnitude of fucked upness (Fm) in an experiment and the stringing together of words in such a way that if presented out of context the subject being exposed would credit a Nazi serial killer with using those terms.

The term head targeted heating is a good example. If a hobo came up to you and said 'head targeted heating' it would be creepy as fuck. If someone went around and wrote 'head targeted heating' on municipal property, bathroom stall doors and fresh fruit I guarantee the Catcher In The Rye functionality embedded in every 1117th person from Connecticut would be activated in at least a few of them.

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"laser targeted cat craze"

Don't overdo that, the little bastards do learn. I did it once too often with my two cats, to the point where they now know exactly what a laser dot is and that it's simply not worth the bother of chasing it. They don't even follow it or look at it any more when I wave it around, instead they simply look at the laser pointer in my hand and then at me, with an expression that clearly says, "What the fuck do you take me for?"

Well, they got it to imitate Michael Jackson and then to try to have sex with an inanimate object.... I think the researchers would fit right into the IT world. Possibly the fly, also, but it would have to like beer and bacon sarnies.